WI: The crew of the USS William D. Porter accidentally kill FDR

Everyone has heard the hilarious The Dollop episode about it, yes?

I hope someone ITTL takes a picture of the Secret Service opening fire on the torpedo as the President watches.

The obvious impact is that Henry Wallace is President now, and for a number of months since I doubt he wins the nomination for 1944.
 
It is said that the Iowa had trained her guns on the Porter, thinking that her crew was part of some presidential assassination plot. So if the torpedo managed to hit the Iowa, kill the President... God help those on the Porter.
 

TruthfulPanda

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I read the wiki ... [giggles] ... use that OTL stuff in a TL and you'd get Hiss!Boo! reactions ... maybe even kicked to the ASB forum ...
 
Actually the post above is quite ridiculous - clearly the US Navy have been torpedoing all attempts to tell the sorry tale of the William D. Porter in the interests of making sure surviving Senior Officers from the Greatest Generation were allowed to live out their days in peace rather than suffer a collective coronary! (either that or they were just determined to make sure the US Army never, EVER found out about all this).
 
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